By Charlie van Genuchten, SURF Last year I wrote that no other year like 2020 has shown us the importance of crisis management preparation. Unfortunately the...
Author - Charlie van Genuchten
No other year has shown how important crisis management preparation is as 2020. We have all had to deal with an ongoing crisis, which asked for a huge amount...
The CLAW Crisis Management event for the GÉANT community is back this year to help all NRENs enhance their crisis management preparedness. CLAW will take place...
A month ago, 75 participants from all over Europe met at PSNC in Poznan, Poland to immerse themselves in talks, training sessions and exercises about crisis...
People are sometimes confused on where to start when preparing to handle crisis and security incidents. My advice is to start with a plan and start the plan...
Often, people are said to be the weakest link in cyber security – worst case they are seen by technicians as the enemy – but we in the SURF...
ARNES has been raising awareness about cyber security and all other aspects of safe use of new technologies since its constitution. In 1995, ARNES’s...
For the second year in a row, the cybersecurity event for research and education in Luxembourg will take place in October 2019, in the South of Luxembourg...
SWITCH starts the Cyber Security Month with the Security Awareness Day () on October 1st. For the second time, participants working in education, law...
With the holiday season approaching, any given October the internet bristles with advice on how to keep your data safe online and how to stay ahead of the...
Sometimes I am just amazed at how cool my job is. I doubt that many people get to spend time creating a world, and then systematically planning its...
What do you do when a dragon burns down your data centre? Do you slay the dragon? Do you follow a strict organisation protocol – that you know by heart...
Imagine… you’re part of the crisis management team of the NREN in the (fictional) country of ‘Guilder’. The crisis coordinator has...
On 19-20 April, the Special Interest Group on Network Operating Centres (SIG-NOC) met for the 7th time with a record attendance of 52 participants, including...
On 27 February 2018, the Task Force Data Protection Regulation (TF-DPR) met for the third time since its launch in September last year. On this...
In October, we boldly stated in our blog, that at the sixth meeting of the Special Interest Group Network Operating Centre (SIG-NOC), we would be looking at...
Two weeks ago, 40 representatives from 20 NRENs met in Malaga for the first ever CLAW crisis management workshop organised by GÉANT. During the two-day event...
A frightening ‘unknown’, and a certainty at the same time, is fast approaching, and we should be asking ourselves: are we ready for it? We are...
On August 28th, a group of privacy-minded people gathered in Berlin to discuss what organisations in the GÉANT community are doing to deal with the upcoming...
Communication, communication, communication. It might not be the first thing you think of when you hear the term ‘Network Operations Centre’, but it became the...
